4.8 /10 1 Votes
Starring Glen Foster Original language(s) English No. of episodes 2 First episode date 2004 Number of seasons 1 Language English | 4.8/10 IMDb Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Network FOX Number of episodes 2 Cast Dani Behr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Littlest Groom 1s a reality television miniseries that aired for two episodes on the Fox network in 2004. Modelled on The Bachelor, the miniseries followed salesman Glen Foster, a 4'5" little person, in his search for love within a group of both little women and women of average stature.
Reception
The show was subjected to considerable negative criticism from media critics and the general public, due to its purportedly exploitative “latter-day freak show” dimension or “carnival-like” quality. Nonetheless, at least one of the little women who appeared on the show explicitly rejected this interpretation, as did Foster himself.
Similarly, Matt Roloff, then-president of the advocacy group Little People of America, commented on the potential for The Littlest Groom to provide a positive media representation of little people as individuals “just being themselves". “[H]iding us behind closed doors or in funny costumes”, he observed, “will never give us the exposure needed to desensitize society to us”.
